St Marys Cement, part of the Votorantim Cimentos, ordered a SpectraFlow Airslide Analyzer for its cement plant in Bowmanville, Ontario.
“The goal is to optimize raw mill operations by replacing the existing XRF Atline system with SpectraFlow’s Airslide Analyzer, increasing measurement accuracy, reducing maintenance, and enabling real-time raw meal adjustments,” SpectraFlow said in a LinkedIn post.
The Airslide Analyzer is an online analyzer used to measure raw materials in airslides. As raw materials are processed through a crusher and raw mill, they are made statistically homogeneous and therefore the analytical results of the SpectraFlow Airslide Analyzer are highly accurate, thanks to its strategic placement.
SpectraFlow noted that by using the analyzer and a site-specific raw mix proportioning strategy, the variation in the local raw materials can be balanced out to considerably increase the consistency of the raw meal and, therefore, kiln feed quality. Also a variable MgO, Na2O, K2O, Cl and SO3 content can monitored far more optimally. The more consistent kiln feed results in fewer kiln stoppages, decreased refractory problems and increased clinker production and quality.
This SpectraFlow order is the 64th order for the cement industry and the first Airslide Analyzer installation in Canada. This moves SpectraFlow’s worldwide analyzer base to 90 analyzers (50 Crossbelt and 40 Airslide) in 30 countries across all continents.
